President Quotes

Joking about Emmanuel Macron:

He's a bit of a man and a bit of a woman, as he's in fashion now. Androgynous.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

It is the unthankful people to whom I have given protection who are always dissatisfied, and, what is more, they actually want me to alter my laws to suit them.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations… We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.

I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?

The confrontation would be better and cheaper for us than to sign that we accept U. N. forces in Darfur.

The drug trade does not function well with a strong state, or a healthy state. It tries to corrupt the police force, it tries to corrupt the judiciary, and the executive. And drug trafficking thrives in a weak state.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Millard Fillmore

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.

In Spanish: Pobre México! Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos

We all with faith, goodwill and purpose consider mankind our greatest challenge!

William R. Tolbert Jr.

Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights.

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

I offer my noble respects to the heroic Korean people who, despite the difficult living conditions caused by life-threatening sanctions and blockade, have firmly trusted, absolutely supported and dynamically implemented our Party's line of simultaneously promoting the two fronts.

Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.

Ulysses S. Grant

Hair blows in the wind.
After years there is still wind.
Sadly no more hair.

Herman Van Rompuy

Culture is a more effective weapon than guns for the purpose of domination. For it was scientific, technical and technological culture which produced the guns. The prerequisite of any domination, exploitation and oppression is the denial to the oppressed man or people of his or their human attributes and therefore, in the first instance, cultural activities.

Ahmed Sékou Touré

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's and teachers', but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.

Myself, the government and people of Nigeria are inspired by the United States of America's achievement and the principles which guide it.

The Latin American people believed and feel that we Filipinos form past of that vast family, the children of Spain. Thus, although Spain ceased to govern those countries many years ago and although another nation is sovereign in the Philippines, those Latin-American peoples feel themselves as brothers to the people of the Philippines. It is the Spanish language that still binds us to those peoples, and the Spanish language will bind us to those peoples eternally if we have the wisdom and patriotism of preserving it.

Manuel L. Quezon

It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority. I am fulfilling a mission from God.

Never make up with extremism, racism, antisemitism or rejecting whoever is different.